The Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (SECFND) course gives you foundation-level knowledge of common security concepts, basic security techniques, and the fundamentals of applications, operating systems, and networking used in a Security Operations Center (SOC).

This course helps you learn to find threats within a real-life network infrastructure using a variety of popular security tools. Through expert instruction and hands-on experience using enterprise-grade security tools, you will learn the basics of network and security concepts, endpoint attacks, cryptography, analysis, and monitoring.

This course provides introductory knowledge for those interested in entering the field of cybersecurity and is the first of two courses that prepare you for the Cisco CCNA® Cyber Ops certification.

Today's cybersecurity professionals need to detect, investigate, and respond to a wide variety of security events. This course will help you gain the skills to play a role in your organization's SOC detecting and responding to security events.

The United States Department of Defense recognizes Cisco CCNA CyberOps certification as an approved baseline certification in the Information Assurance (IA) Workforce CCSP Incident Responder and CCSP Analyst job categories.

How you'll benefit

Learn foundational knowledge for detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents, including monitoring, analysis, and understanding common attacks

Prepare for the Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops certification with hands-on practice using real-life security analysis tools, such as those found in a Linux distribution

Start your career in the high-demand area of cybersecurity

If you need privileged access to DoD Systems, and are military personnel, civilian contractors, and others, this course helps your prepare for Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops certification, which is one of the DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certifications

Who should enroll

IT professionals

Any learner interested in entering associate-level cybersecurity roles such as:

What's Included

Instructor-Led

Class Information

Course #CSC-1549

5 Days

1 Exam

Online Training

Can't travel or you want to stay with your family or business. No problem! Stay in your own city and save the additional expenses of roundtrip airfare, lodging, transportation, and meals and receive the same great instruction live from our instructors in our Live Instructor-Led Remote Classroom Training.

Remote Classroom Training

Our Remote Classroom Training is a live class with students observing the instructor and listening through your computer speakers. You will see the instructor's computer, slides, notes, etc., just like in the classroom. You will be following along, doing work, labs, and individual assignments.

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